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Re: [PLUG] Microsoftian Encephalitis & failure to WindowsUpdate
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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:21:56 -0400
> > From: jeff <jeffv@op.net>
> >
> > Windows has behaved decently for me lately but only the VM. On Friday
> > my Windows monitoring box developed a form of illness I refer to as
> > Microsoftian Encephalitis.
>
> Yup, AKA Windows bitrot or cruft (Hummm, Microcruft Windows?). Some
> people proactively re-install the entire OS from scratch every 6-12
> months to prevent that. Mind boggling, since that's the better part of
> a day or two to get the OS, the patches, the apps, the patches, the
> configs, and the data all back in place. Whereas with Debian/Ubuntu you
> only ever install once, even for major upgrades... But you already know
> that. :-)
If you're reinstalling Windows with that frequency, you should be
using a centralized image that's itself updated with patches as they
come out. This reduces the re-install time to ~45 minutes + however
long the restore from backup takes. This kind of setup is extremely
common in large-organization Windows deployments and is
well-documented. Large-organization Linux deployments follow much the
same strategy.
--
Toby DiPasquale
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